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I believe that the truth of any subject only comes when all sides of the story are put together. — Alice Walker

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it. — Alice Walker

Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it. — Alice Walker

We must, all of us, learn actually not to have enemies, but only confused adversaries who are ourselves in disguise. — Alice Walker

I'm mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can't even bring themselves to talk. — Alice Walker

Animals were not made for us, or our use. They have their own use, which is just being who they are. — Alice Walker

I don't know nothing, I think. And glad of it. — Alice Walker

If you was my wife, she say, I'd cover you up with kisses stead of licks, and work hard for you too. — Alice Walker

You must run around like a crazy person or walk sedately honoring the dead. — Alice Walker

It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man. — Alice Walker

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it. — Alice Walker

Only dead people need loud music, you know. — Alice Walker

Some colored people so scared of whitefolks they claim to love the cotton gin. — Alice Walker

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. — Alice Walker

Healing begins where the wound was made. — Alice Walker

Writing poems is my way of celebrating with the world that I have not committed suicide the evening before. — Alice Walker

Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared. — Alice Walker

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have. — Alice Walker

Whoever you are, whatever you are, start with that, whether salt of the earth or only white sugar. — Alice Walker

Activism is my rent for living on the planet. — Alice Walker

I never have an intended audience. I just write, you know. — Alice Walker

I am not convinced that men and women were ever meant to share the same house, though some people can do it beautifully. — Alice Walker

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence. — Alice Walker

We'll, you know how nigger is. Can't nobody tell 'em nothing even today. Can't be rule. Every nigger you see got a kingdom in his head. — Alice Walker

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here. — Alice Walker

I'm the most stubborn person I know. — Alice Walker

This is the true wine of astonishment: We are not over when we think we are. — Alice Walker

Anyhow, I say, the God I been praying and writing to is a man. And act just like all the other mens I know. Trifling, forgitful, and lowdown. — Alice Walker

Nature has created us with the capacity to know God, to experience God. — Alice Walker

It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are. — Alice Walker

There was no sympathy for struggle that ended in defeat. Which meant there was no sympathy for struggle itself - only for winning. — Alice Walker

I don't know who tried to teach him what to do in the bedroom, but it must have been a furniture salesman. — Alice Walker

Susannah was glad that, on principle, she rarely listened to men. Rarely believed, really, a word they said. No matter how much she might love them. — Alice Walker

The end
is coming
yesterday
it was
here
too. — Alice Walker

A burnt finger remember the fire. — Alice Walker

I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing. — Alice Walker

She look like she ain't long for this world but dressed well for the next. — Alice Walker

How we come into this world, how we are ushered in, met, and hopefully embraced upon arrival, impacts the whole of our time on earth. — Alice Walker

Be an outcast. Be pleased to walk alone. — Alice Walker

World wars have been fought and lost; for every war is against the world and every war against the world is lost. — Alice Walker

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools. — Alice Walker

She sicker than my mama was when she die. But she more evil than my mama and that keep her alive. — Alice Walker

But it ain't easy, trying to do without God even if you know he ain't there, trying to do without him is a strain — Alice Walker

Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof. — Alice Walker

As I get older, I realize that the thing I value the most is good-heartednes s. — Alice Walker

I have a collective sense of suffering. — Alice Walker

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul. — Alice Walker

Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved. — Alice Walker

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. — Alice Walker

When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats. — Alice Walker

I have never felt that the one thing that I am 'known for' is what I am. — Alice Walker

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister. — Alice Walker

If a person is hit hard enough, even if she stands, she falls. — Alice Walker

I go to readings by fiction writers like Alice Walker, and I'm envious of the level of attention they generate. — Derrick Bell

Because I know. Grown-up white men don't want to pretend to be anything else. Not even for a minute. — Alice Walker

Anything we love can be saved. — Alice Walker

- Always with me was the inner twin: my true nature, my true self. It is timeless, free, compassionate and in love with whatever is natural to me.- — Alice Walker

My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig. — Alice Walker

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me. — Alice Walker

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder. — Alice Walker

Sofia the kind of woman no matter what she have in her hand she make it look like a weapon. — Alice Walker

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home. — Alice Walker

The only way to solace anyone who loved you in life is to be a good memory — Alice Walker

They were assumed, like women and cats, to have no souls. — Alice Walker

The Lord don't like ugly, she say. And he ain't stuck on pretty. — Alice Walker

Criticism is painful when it's not done with love. — Alice Walker

I'm not lesbian; I'm not bisexual; I'm not straight. I'm just curious. — Alice Walker

Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also. — Alice Walker

I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing. — Alice Walker

I think all documentaries leave out areas of people's lives. Which is good. There are areas that need not be explored. — Alice Walker

God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. — Alice Walker

Why aren't you happy in America, if everyone there drives motorcars? — Alice Walker

Can't you see I'm already half dead. — Alice Walker

She did not see why anyone should worry about her soul, even the people she marched with. "When it gives me trouble," she'd sneer, "I'll call y'all. — Alice Walker

There because of her brilliance but only tolerated because it was clear she was one, too, on whom true Ladyhood would never be conferred. — Alice Walker

As long as the Earth can make a spring every year, I can. — Alice Walker

We all have to start somewhere if us want to do better, an d out of self is what us have to hand — Alice Walker

What you hope for, you also fear. — Alice Walker

My life is not to be somebody else's impact - you know what I mean? — Alice Walker

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it. — Alice Walker

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X. — Alice Walker

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. — Alice Walker

Poetry is the lifeblood of rebellion, revolution, and the raising of consciousness. — Alice Walker

Whoever he is, he is not worth all this.
And I will never
unclench my teeth long enough
to tell him so. — Alice Walker

War will stop when we no longer praise it, or give it any attention at all. Peace will come wherever it is sincerely invited. — Alice Walker

Dear Nettie, I don't write to God no more, I write to you. — Alice Walker

Keep in mind always the present you are constructing. It should be the future you want. — Alice Walker

June a good time to go off into the world — Alice Walker

HELPED are those who laugh with a pure heart; theirs will be the company of the jolly righteous. — Alice Walker

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. — Alice Walker

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass. — Alice Walker

No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories. — Alice Walker

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. — Alice Walker

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing. — Alice Walker

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God. I'm a child of that. — Alice Walker

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world. — Alice Walker

No matter how hidden the cruelty, no matter how far off the screams of pain and terror, we live in one world. We are one people. — Alice Walker

When the ax came into the forest the trees said the handle is one of us. — Alice Walker

Every stitch i sew will be a kiss. — Alice Walker

I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think. — Alice Walker